The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-16

rage SO brilliant $50 Industrious" the Italian
has it. We have long list of the oldest noble
families and of the leading literary end scien-
tiic in the kingdoms who were actually
present and thus testify before the great world
that they believe in the genuineness OF the pres
ent representatives of the d'Avalos and del
Vasto family Our legal jenkins continues:
Whatever magnificent noble and brilliant.
which can be conceived of In such contin-
gency was combined last Sunday evening
the renowned Palace del Vasto. Magnifcence
and charmiDgness characterized the assembly.
1t was fiesta given by a d'Avalos in the most
delightful circumstances of life. The iilumi-
nation, so perfect in every respect, rendered
the morning spectacle splendid and erandioso'
in those vast salons There added the
greatest pomp and splendor OF nobility and sci
ence-the first mobility is feminine in Italianl.
the older il is the more highly it is priced. and
she 10 the only lady that boasts how old she is;
the second sciencel gives vigor to the first. be-
cause AS the learned Bacon says Man is capa-
BILE only when he knows With equal magnifi-
cence and greatness the august and sacred nup-
tial rite had glory added to 1t by the of
-" Then follows tremendous list OF the
princes tuot royal, and mobiles of the land, in
GLIDING the Colonna family. After thar. but
not the least i'm portant this suspicious occa-
sion appears the list of the clergy, from the
highest hierarchy of Southern Italy, the Cardi-
nal Archbishop San Felice, to eminent persons
nal performed the ceremony, and Leo XIII
actually sent by special mes
diction to the newly married pair. All
this shows that the leading nobility and the
leading ecclesiastcs by their presence, cere-
monies and benedic.ions believe that Don
Giuseppe d'Avalos is 1.-The true and only ia
cobs F" and fear the plaintiff in the will
have a hard time in convincing people to the
contrary.
One thing in this Jenkinsish advertisement
strikes American something very peculiar,
and Yet full of family pride and vanity 1t will
be noticed that the bridegroom and bride bear,
respectively. the Christian names of Joseph ana
Mary. Ii was not considered enough for our
legal Jenkins to tell of nobemen, princes, pro-
fessors and church dignitaries who were pres
ent. but he mustlet the public know what tre-
mendous kinfolks were in the family OF Avalos
and Brancaccio. Hear him: -''There, then. stood
side by side in that richly decorated chapel
the bridegroom and bride who represented in
their union the most noble houses of the Avalos
and Observation-Disclosures from which had
sprung four crowned heads. and the great
of AcQuiDas 1.-THE famous Thomas Acquinas,
the most eminent theologian in the thirteenth
century, sometimes called the 'angelical doctorl
and who Ii. e. the Avelos and Brancacciosl have
given TO the Holy Church fourteen cardinals.
and to paradise four canonized saints; and the
most tremendous climax this bride and BRIDE
groom standing side by side, with their purity,
their religion and innocence, seem to reproduce
in themselves the sacred marriage of Maria
Sanctissima TO Joseph the putative father of
our divine Redeemer."
Fulsome adulation could go further, al
though | might give the whole of the eabora
ton OF this comparison of this marriage with
that Of Joseph and Mary, but shall quote no
more concerning it. The whole article. do not
journal outside of Italy. But some of your
readers may desire to see what the plaintiff has
to say in the law suitsnow before the country.
Here is the statement of the Signorina Regina
dAvaos, the Princess of Montesar chic, and
which she alleges she can prove. one part of
Which N is admitted ed by both sides The
dAvalos), though the descendant of such
long and ilustrious line of ancestors. fell in
love with beautiful girl of the hps bier classes.
whose name Cherph-a- Qittle Cherub)
Caturano She was installed in the palace of
yasto-bu. not as wife. They lived together a
NUMBER of years, when the little Cherub twho
TO Thackeray's Becky Sharp. showed the Mar
ouis that their relation was not the correct
thing; that it was a state of present humiliation
to her and might be one of future misery. The
Marquis persuaded. and fine day they
journeyed into the country and were made one
by the parochial priest in a quiet little church,
far from the din OF city life Some time after
their return to Naples; Cherubina again per-
suaded the Marquis to have their marriage per-
formed. as the Italian code exacts. cvilly in the
city hall, by the presiding magstrate-the only
legal union recognized in United Italy, and the
Marquis and Cherubina went and did it. Thus,
in 1865. the humble Cherubina Caturapo became
Marchioness del Vasro and the lady possessor of
all those other long historical titles. Now botn
parties are agreed as to all the circumstances
narrated above. Here. however. comes the di-
vergence The Don Giuseppe and his widowed
mother, the marchioness (Cherubina Caturanol,
aver, aud are ready to prove it, that in 1873 the
defunct marquis Francesco's father, appeared
before n notary and recognized giuseppe (which
he could do according to Italian law as his son
and legal heir. although born to him and Cheru-
bina before wedlock Thus Don Giuseppe in
herited legally, according TO Italian law, all the
estates, titles, ETC., OF the defunct Marquis Don
Francesca.
The above is the claim Of the defendants.
Now, what is the story put forward by the
plaintiff, the Princess of Montesarchol She
asserts asks leave of the court to prove the
assertion, that Don Giuseppe, who claims to be
the present Marquis Del Vasto 10 not the son of
VhAxn Lnap hV4fs Of
illegal claimant, and has not a shadow of a right
TO the titles, estates, etc, of Don Francesco-in
short has not a drop, either legitimate or lille
Ultimate, of Avalos blood in his veins. This is
what she says that she prove-and she is
backed by some of the ablest counsel in the
kingdom-that Cherubina (who. after living
for years with the Marquis, Don Francesca with
out being married. and was then married to
him had two sisters, Nicoletta and Vincenza.
Nicoletta. in process of time. married man
servant named Raphael MaZza. and to them was
born, March 81, 1865, in the city OF Naples. a
male child, who was duly baptized on March %,
1865. in the presence of witnesses. in the church
of Monte Caivario in the aforesaid city of Ma
pies. and his name registered Giuseppe
Mazza. In 1867 both of the parents MaZza IRA
phael and Nicoletta) dying, the little boy Gui-
sepDe was left in the bands of Vincenza, the
second sister of Cherubna. Vincenza had been
married to ''sorbettiere" (ice-cream and water
ice venderl who reioiced in the big name of Jo-
seph Napoleon. The Napoleones became hard
up and begged the opulent and now noble Che
rubina, for sweet charity's sake to receive her
dead sisters child and care for him. Cherubina,
Marchioness del Vasto. took the boy and placed
him among the domestics of the Palazzo del
Vasto. The boy grew and was bold and full of
spirit and one day he appeared before his aunt
the Warehouses, and stamped his little foot with
disdan. oxclaiming, II am your nephew, and L
am not TO be banished to the ante-chamb ers, and
the apartments of the servants. l have the
right to dine with you" Result. the boy had his
own way. Regina dAvelos, the Princess of
Montesarchio, the plaintiff in this case. says
that Cherubina. Marchioness D'Avelos, ETC..
never mad any children. and she (the Cherubina)
became nervous and sad-ths was while her
husband the Marquis Don francesca, still
alive Regina says that Don Francesca was
persuaded by this influential Italian Becky
Sharp, Cherubina to make the world believe
that the young Giuseppe was their ION lest,n
and hence they passed off Guseppa Mazza as
their child. born out of wedlock and thus legt-
imized according to the code.
All this the defendants 1.-THE Dowager Mar
chioness and Don Giuseppe, Marquis of Vasto,
etc J deny, and they protest against the doings